Happiness is a decision for which we are responsible. It is not more complex than that. We don’t need to fix anything outside of us; we have to let go of the idea that anything outside of us can be fixed. None of that is the problem. Our work as students of A Course inContinue reading “The Decision to be Happy”
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ACIM and the Enemy of Inner Peace
1 Earlier this week I wrote about the “problem” of evil. Here I want to go deeper into it, but from the perspective of having enemies. Many ACIM students, when asked to make a list of their enemies, demur. “All men are my brothers.” “I’m a lover, not a hater.” They obey a voice insideContinue reading “ACIM and the Enemy of Inner Peace”
A Course in Miracles: What is the Holy Spirit?
The Holy Spirit is a way of thinking that A Course in Miracles posits as both the ego’s opposite and the ego’s undoing. Like ego, the Holy Spirit is experienced as a voice which both interprets experience and makes suggestions about how to respond to experience. However, listening to it rather than to ego producesContinue reading “A Course in Miracles: What is the Holy Spirit?”
Bodies, Pain and Inner Peace
Earlier this week I wrote about pain and the body. What is an ACIM student to do when they are suffering chronic pain? Here I want to go a little deeper into this question, focusing on the attraction of pain as an obstacle to inner peace. A Course in Miracles identifies “the belief that theContinue reading “Bodies, Pain and Inner Peace”
Learning to Act in the Name of Love
This post but another way: Heinz von Foerster said “If you want to see, learn how to act.” “Learn how to act” is an instruction for living. It is a direction given to a body in a world. For example, somebody is yelling at us or we want to yell at somebody. What is theContinue reading “Learning to Act in the Name of Love”
Homesteading and ACIM
I would like to write about my experience of homesteading – raising one’s own food and the relationships that entails – and how it relates to what A Course in Miracles calls the “Happy Dream.” Pictures are just random, “around the place and around our lives” kind of thing. Chrisoula and I have constructed overContinue reading “Homesteading and ACIM”